Lonchothrix

Lonchothrix
Temporal range: Recent
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Echimyidae
Subfamily: Eumysopinae
Genus: Lonchothrix
Thomas, 1920
Species: L. emiliae
Binomial name
Lonchothrix emiliae
Thomas, 1920

Lonchothrix emiliae is a spiny rat species from South America. It is known from Brazil south of the Amazon River, where it has been found in grassland and gallery forest. Also known as the Tuft-tailed Spiny Tree Rat,[1][2] it is the only species in the genus Lonchothrix.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b Patton, J. & Weksler, M. (2008). Lonchothrix emiliae. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 6 January 2009.
  2. ^ a b Woods, Charles A.; Kilpatrick, C. William (16 November 2005). "Infraorder Hystricognathi (pp. 1538-1600)". In Wilson, Don E., and Reeder, DeeAnn M., eds. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols. (2142 pp.). p. 1583. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=13400471.